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Matthew H. Brown started the topic Extended, CFP Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis & Pop Culture, Global South in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSymposium
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and
Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that…[Read more]
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William J. Spurlin started the topic CFP: ICLA Congress in Vienna: Comparative Gender/Queer Studies in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for Abstracts
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association
University of Vienna
21-27 July 2016
(Queer) Relationality: Gender and Queer Comparatists at Work
5-Day Seminar Sponsored by the ICLA Comparative Gender Studies Committee
Because the comparative examines literary and cultural texts…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Special issue of ELN on In/Security in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP: In/Security
Special issue of English Language Notes, Fall/Winter 2016 (Vol. 54, No. 2)
This issue of ELN takes for its focus the topic of security and its necessary correlate, insecurity. As Itty Abraham notes, the term “security” is a “traveling signifier” that has “attached itself to every scale of human activity, from the individua…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: The Novel in or against World Literature (SNS 2016) in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe Society for Novel Studies (SNS) invites proposals for fifteen-minute papers to be given at its biennial conference held at the University of Pittsburgh, May 13-14, 2016. For more information, visit http://novel.trinity.duke.edu/news/2015/07/08/sns-2016-call-for-papers.
Proposals should not exceed 200 words and are due by September 7, 2015.
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Susan M. Kalter replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would recommend Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI read Player Piano about 1972 and really only remembered the outlines of it and that American citizen translated as slave when I reread it last week. Now I’ve just published a book that traces colored people in Western Utopian literature from the Civil War to 2000, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, I realize that I did not see Player Piano as a…[Read more]
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Christopher Michaelson replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI want to thank everyone who has replied (by email and post) to my query so far — and to say please keep the recommendations coming! I have received many interesting ideas. At some point, probably several months into the future, I plan to share a master list with you that results from this query and related research. – Christopher Michaelson
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Richard J. Douglass-Chin replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoOne novel that comes to mind is Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, a Kafkaesque and extremely nihilistic novel about present-day India, globalization, and some of the corruption in Indian business and politics. Some criticize the book as succumbing to a kind of neo-Orientalism, while others laud it as exposing some of the serious problems facing In…[Read more]
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Kristin E. Pitt replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoA couple of accessible short story suggestions from the environmentally-focused series on Oil and Water that The Guardian published in the past few years: “The Swimming Pool” by Jekwu Anyaegbuna, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/16/jekwu-anyaegbuna-swimming-pool-short-story , and “Barthelme” by Joanna Kavenna, http://www.theguardian.com/bo…[Read more]
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